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Lexicon :: Strong's G1557 - ekdikēsis

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ἐκδίκησις
Transliteration
ekdikēsis (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-dik'-ay-sis
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:445,215

Strong’s Definitions

ἐκδίκησις ekdíkēsis, ek-dik'-ay-sis; from G1556; vindication, retribution:—(a-, re-)venge(-ance), punishment.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x

The KJV translates Strong's G1557 in the following manner: vengeance (4x), avenge (with G4060) (3x), revenge (1x), punishment (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 9x
The KJV translates Strong's G1557 in the following manner: vengeance (4x), avenge (with G4060) (3x), revenge (1x), punishment (1x).
  1. a revenging, vengeance, punishment

    With respect to 2Cr 7:11: “…meting out of justice; doing justice to all parties. See on Luk 18:3; 21:22. The word has, however, the sense of requital (see on Rom 12:19; compare 2Th 1:8), and carries with it, etymologically, the sense of of vindication, as Luk 18:7-8.” (Marvin Vincent, Word Studies in the New Testament, 3:329)
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκδίκησις ekdíkēsis, ek-dik'-ay-sis; from G1556; vindication, retribution:—(a-, re-)venge(-ance), punishment.
STRONGS G1557:
ἐκδίκησις, -εως, , (ἐκδικέω, which see), Sept. for נְקָמָה and נָקָם, פְּקֻדָּה, מִשְׁפָּט (Ezekiel 16:38; Ezekiel 23:45) and שְׁפָטִים; a revenging; vengeance, punishment: Romans 12:19 and Hebrews 10:30 from Deuteronomy 32:35; 2 Corinthians 7:11; Luke 21:22; ποιεῖν τὴν ἐκδίκησίν τινος, to vindicate one from wrongs, accomplish the avenging of, Luke 18:7f; τινί, to avenge an injured person, Acts 7:24 (Judges 11:36); ἐκδίκησίς τινος, objective genitive, the punishment of one, 1 Peter 2:14; διδόναι ἐκδίκησίν τινι, to inflict punishment on, [render vengeance to] one, 2 Thessalonians 1:8; cf. [Sir. 12:6]; Ezekiel 25:14. (Polybius 3, 8, 10.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Deuteronomy
32:35
Judges
11:36
Ezekiel
16:38; 23:45; 25:14
Luke
18:7; 21:22
Acts
7:24
Romans
12:19
2 Corinthians
7:11
2 Thessalonians
1:8
Hebrews
10:30
1 Peter
2:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1557 matches the Greek ἐκδίκησις (ekdikēsis),
which occurs 54 times in 48 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - ‘And I will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2 - “Take full vengeance for the sons of Israel on the Midianites; afterward you will be gathered to your people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:3 - And Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm men from among you for the war, that they may [fn]go against Midian to execute Yahweh’s vengeance on Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:4 -

but the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom Yahweh had struck down among them. Yahweh had also executed judgments on their gods.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:35 -

‘Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,

In due time their foot will stumble;

For the day of their disaster is near,

And the impending things are hastening upon them.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:36 - So she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to vow to Yahweh; do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:7 - Then Samson said to them, “If you act like this, then I will surely take revenge on you, but after that I will cease.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:28 -

Then Samson called to Yahweh and said, “O Lord Yahweh, please remember me and please strengthen me just this time, O God, that I may at once be avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 4:8 - Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus Yahweh has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his seed.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:48 -

The God who executes vengeance for me,

And brings down peoples under me,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 18:47 -

The God who executes vengeance for me,

And subdues peoples under me.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 58:10 -

The righteous will be glad when he beholds the vengeance;

He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 79:10 -

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”

Let it be known among the nations before our eyes:

Vengeance for the blood of Your slaves which has been poured out.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:1 -

O Yahweh, God of [fn]vengeance,

God of [fn]vengeance, [fn]shine forth!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 149:7 -

To execute vengeance on the nations

And punishments on the peoples,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:17 -

He put on righteousness like a breastplate,

And a helmet of salvation on His head;

And He put on garments of vengeance for clothing

And wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:15 -

For behold, Yahweh will come in fire

And His chariots like the whirlwind,

To return His anger with wrath,

And His rebuke with flames of fire.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20 -

But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteously,

Who tests the [fn]insides and the heart,

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You have I revealed my case.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:10 -

For I have heard the bad report of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”

[fn]All my trusted friends,

Keeping watch for my fall, say:

“Perhaps he will be [fn]deceived, so that we may prevail against him

And take our revenge on him.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:12 -

Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, You who test the righteous,

Who see the [fn]mind and the heart;

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You I have revealed my cause.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:10 -

Indeed, that day belongs to Lord Yahweh of hosts,

A day of vengeance, so as to avenge Himself on His adversaries;

And the sword will devour and be satiated

And [fn]drink its fill of their blood;

For there will be a sacrifice to Lord Yahweh of hosts

In the land of the north by the river Euphrates.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:21 -

“Also her mercenaries in her midst

Are like [fn]fattened calves,

For even they have turned back and have fled away together;

They did not stand their ground.

For the day of their disaster has come upon them,

The time of their punishment.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:15 -

“Raise a loud shout against her on every side!

She has given [fn]herself up, her pillars have fallen,

Her walls have been pulled down.

For this is the vengeance of Yahweh:

Take vengeance on her;

As she has done to others, so do to her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:27 -

Put all her young bulls to the sword;

Let them go down to the slaughter!

Woe be upon them, for their day has come,

The time of their punishment.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:28 -

There is a sound of those who flee and escape from the land of Babylon,

To declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God,

Vengeance for His temple.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:31 -

“Behold, I am against you, O [fn]arrogant one,”

Declares Lord Yahweh of hosts,

“For your day has come,

The time [fn]when I will punish you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:6 -

Flee from the midst of Babylon,

And each of you escape with his life!

Do not be [fn]silenced in her [fn]iniquity,

For this is Yahweh’s time of vengeance;

He is going to render recompense to her.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:11 -

Sharpen the arrows, fill the quivers!

Yahweh has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes

Because His purpose is against Babylon to destroy it;

For it is the vengeance of Yahweh, vengeance for His temple.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:36 -

Therefore thus says Yahweh,

“Behold, I am going to plead your case

And exact full vengeance for you;

And I will dry up her [fn]sea

And make her fountain dry.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 3:60 -

You have seen all their vengeance,

All their purposes against me.

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:15 - ‘So [fn]it will be a reproach, a reviling, a chastisement, and a desecration to the nations who are all around you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath, and wrathful reproofs. I, Yahweh, have spoken.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:1 -

Then He cried out in my hearing with a loud voice saying, “Draw near, [fn]O executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:21 -

For thus says Lord Yahweh, “How much more when I send My four calamitous judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:38 - “Thus I will judge you like women who commit adultery or shed blood are judged; and I will bring on you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:41 - “They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will make you cease from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer give [fn]your earnings to your lovers.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:4 - “Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Make them know the abominations of their fathers
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:10 - “They uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters, but they killed her with the sword. Thus she became a despised name among women, and they executed judgments on her.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:45 - “But they, righteous men, will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses and blood is on their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:8 -

“That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,

I have put her blood on the bare rock,

That it may not be covered.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:11 - “Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:12 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance and has incurred grievous guilt and avenged themselves upon them,”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:14 - “I will lay My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel. Therefore, they will act in Edom according to My anger and according to My wrath; thus they will know My vengeance,” declares Lord Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:15 -

‘Thus says Lord Yahweh, “Because the Philistines have acted in revenge and have taken vengeance with scorn of soul to bring ruin with everlasting enmity,”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 25:17 - “So I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful reproofs; and they will know that I am Yahweh when I lay My vengeance on them.”’”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:14 -

“I will make Pathros desolate,

Set a fire in Zoan,

And execute judgments on [fn]Thebes.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:7 -

The days of punishment have come;

The days of recompense have come;

[fn]Let Israel know this!

The prophet is an ignorant fool,

The [fn]inspired man has madness,

Because of the abundance of your iniquity

And because your hostility has abounded.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 5:15 -

“And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath

On the nations which have not [fn]listened.”

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 7:4 -

The best of them is like a briar,

The most upright like a thorn hedge.

The day when you post your watchmen,

Your punishment will come.

[fn]At that time their panic will happen.

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